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WHITE-WINGED TERN.

Sterna leucoptera, Linn.

Viralva leucoptera, Leach.

L’Hirondelle-de-mer leucoptére.
Tue W hite-winged Tern would appear

Tern of the more northern latitudes,
flat borders of the sea.

to represent in the southern districts of Europe the Common Black

frequenting, like that bird, inland lakes and marshes, as well as the low
We are informed that it inhabits all the bays

and gulfs along the shores of the
Mediterranean, and that it is very common in tl

1e neighbourhood of Gibraltar : it visits also, according to
M. Temminck, the lakes and marshes of Italy, such

its journey to Holland or the parallel latitudes.

In habits, manners, size, and structure, it strictly resembles the Black Ter
and the greyish white of its wing, will, however, serve at once to d

as Lucarno, Lugano, Como, &c., but never extends

n3; the pure whiteness of its tail,
istinguish it from that species.
Its food consists of insects, particularly dragon flies, moths, and other winged
and occasionally small fishes.

Of its nidification and the number and colour of its eggs, little is at present correctly ascertained ; but we
have every reason to believe that they bear a close resemblance to those of the Black Tern.

The sexes do not differ in the colour of their plumage, but the young of the year have le
wings, and the rest of the plumage is of a lighter and browner hue ; in fact, it undergoes
similar to that of the Black Tern.

The whole of the head, neck, back and belly, and the two outer quill-feathers black ; the remainder of the

wings greyish white ; the rump, tail, vent, and under tail-coverts white ; beak brownish red ; tarsi brownish
red.

and aquatic insects, worms,

ss white on the

a change very

The Plate represents an adult of the natural size.

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